October 2013 - change - Mailing Lists

[Job] PATH is seeking a Director, Digital Health Solutions
by Nicola Dell 31 Oct '13

31 Oct '13

** ** ** ** PATH**** ** ** Director, Digital Health Solutions, Technology Solutions**** **** PATH is an international nonprofit organization focused on transforming global health through innovation in order to ensure increased access and equity. We take an entrepreneurial approach to developing and delivering high-impact, low-cost solutions, from lifesaving vaccines, drugs, diagnositics and devices to collaborative programs with communities. Through our work in more than 70 countries, PATH and our partners empower people to achieve their full potential.**** **** Global health has emerged as an important factor in ensuring social, political, economic equity around the world. Access to and demand for healthcare around the world has gone through a rapid transformation in the last decade. Technology, and in particular information technology, plays an increasingly important role in enabling global health solutions and achieving more equity in access to these solutions. It is a trend that is expected to accelerate in the next decade. Despite substantial promise, however, deployment of information systems and digital health tools in global health faces many challenges, including non-standardized architecture and a fragmented technology landscape.**** **** PATH’s Digital Health Solutions Group, housed in the Technology Solutions Program, aims to strengthen health system performance through the design and deployment of effective, scalable, and sustainable digital health solutions. PATH’s vision for digital health technologies is shaped by the belief that the next generation of all global health solutions will be not only enabled but also driven by information systems. These systems will be critical to all aspects of healthcare in resource-limited environments, including prevention & education, product interventions, supply chains, and monitoring & evaluation. In addition, strong health information systems and tools will be required in the development of all such solutions, in terms of managing data, understanding markets, engaging in clinical trials, and in ensuring innovation gets to scale. These systems will facilitate storage and sharing of epidemiological and treatment data, plus global and country level logistics information that is updated -- easy to access and reliable. The systems themselves will need to be based on inter-operable, standardized, and flexible architecture.**** **** PATH is committed to building a robust digital health platform that enables its vision in global health. The Digital Health Solutions Group is expected to lead the global health community through this exciting period of transformation and growth in digital health in parts of the world that need it the most.**** **** The Director of Digital Health Group must be a global thought leader that leads the group through this phase of rapid growth and builds it into a strong industry-leading platform. This individual must be a visionary backed by substantial experience and credibility in the fields of information technology and global health. This position reports directly to the Global Program Leader of Technology Solutions, with strong collaboration with senior leadership across the organization. Areas of responsibility include:**** **** **· **Develop and direct the overall strategy and implementation for digital health solution design, architecture, standards, and product development for global-common and country-specific solutions [both supporting internal demands across PATH’s broad program areas, as well as building a platform for externally-driven projects and activities to support governments, industry, NGOS and other players in this work.**** **· **Be a global thought leader who establishes PATH as a significant player in the area of appropriate digital health solutions for low resource settings, including by authoring papers, delivering speeches, negotiating with governments, convening think tanks, and maintaining or building linkages with global stakeholders and partners (e.g., World Health Organization, World Bank, mHealth Alliance, Grameen Foundation, Asia eHealth Informatics Network (AeHIN), the GAVI Alliance, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, VillageReach, John Snow Inc., Vodafone, Qualcomm, etc.).** ** **· **Lead fundraising and business development efforts for the group, working with donors and partners globally, to build a strong platform for digital health.**** **· **Build a strong digital health platform for PATH by continuing to expand the portfolio of global projects.**** **· **Lead, and manage a world-class team distributed across the Americas, Europe, Asia, & Africa.**** **· **Foster strategic linkages between digital health solutions and other PATH programs, including:**** **o**With PATH’s internal IT team and global and country programs to integrate best practices and capabilities in HMIS to achieve effective, scalable, and sustainable global health solutions.**** **o**With PATH’s policy/advocacy work, which has a strong health systems strengthening focus.**** **o**With PATH’s senior leadership, contributing Health Management Information Systems' (HMIS') knowledge and experience to organizational discussions and helping build digital health as an important PATH platform.* *** Required Skills**** **** **· **Demonstrated leadership experience in taking a new information technology or health initiative to scale, including building a team, developing a vision and a strategy, working with a diverse set of stakeholders to execute the strategy.**** **· **Credibility as a thought leader in the digital health space (e.g., mHealth; eHealth; HMIS; social media; etc.), backed by specific technical expertise in the adoption and use of management information systems.**** **· **Strong knowledge of HMIS architecture and commercial standards and best practices.**** **· **Experience in the planning, design, development/acquisition, and deployment of HMIS solutions; experience in country-based digital health strategy, planning, and implementation.**** **· **A positive, solution-oriented, and resourceful leader willing to entertain and invest in innovation while able to prioritize ideas with “legs”.**** **· **Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with partners and donors, including a proven ability to obtain funding.**** **· **Desirable: Experience in policy and advocacy initiatives related to health information systems.**** **· **Demonstrated track record of taking a small group of people who are geographically dispersed and developing them into a fully functioning team with clear roles and accountability structures.**** **· **Demonstrated expertise in positively managing professional, technical staff with an approach that is responsive to diverse work styles and cultures.**** **· **Available to travel nationally and internationally 35-50 % percent, including visits to PATH’s global offices.**** **· **Excellent written and verbal presentation skills; Fluency in English and a second language desirable.**** Required Experience**** **** Masters or Doctoral degree in management or business administration, management information systems, or related field plus 15 years' experience in a blend of commercial and non-commercial settings in the related field. Experience working with donors and other key stakeholders in HMIS, eHealth or mHealth strategy essential. Experience working in developing country settings highly desirable.**** ** ** *PATH is dedicated to diversity and is an equal opportunity employer.* * * *Must have legal authorization to work in the US.*** ** **

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Big Data and Development at ICTD'13
by VANESSA FRIAS MARTINEZ 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

We invite researchers to present their work and participate in a special session on "Data Science and Development: Scaling Human Behavior Studies into the Millions" at the ICTD'2013 conference in Cape Town, South Africa. The session will be held on December 10th, 2013, from 09h00-13h00. We welcome both novel research and work that has already been published. The objective is to create a community around the areas of Big Data and Development. If interested, email an abstract of your work to the session organizers (Vanessa Frias, Josh Blumenstock, and Amit Nanavati) at bigictddata(a)gmail.com. Submissions made by November 15 will be given full consideration. Session Abstract. The pervasiveness of mobile technologies, social media, and digital sensors is quickly generating vast quantities of digital traces that reveal a wide range of human behavior. This session focuses on understanding how the information extracted from such large-scale datasets can be used by researchers, policymakers, and organizations working for social development. ________________________________ Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario. Puede consultar nuestra política de envío y recepción de correo electrónico en el enlace situado más abajo. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee. We only send and receive email on the basis of the terms set out at: http://www.tid.es/ES/PAGINAS/disclaimer.aspx

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Cynthia Moses: Environmental Education in the DRC with the International Conservation and Education Fund
by Trevor Perrier 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

What: Cynthia Moses: Environmental Education in the DRC with the International Conservation and Education Fund When: Tuesday, October 29th at 12 noon Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203 Join us for this weeks Change talk by Cynthia Moses on here work with the International Conservation and Education Fund (INCEF) an NGO working in the Democratic Republic of Congo promoting the health and wellbeing of human and wildlife populations through local video disseminations. Abstract INCEF was founded on 3 principles: 1) The revolutionary change in communications technology in recent years and the fact that the barriers to production and dissemination – technical, physical, financial – have either disappeared or have been greatly reduced; 2) using this technology successfully to create actual change is not likely to occur unless people profoundly understand the risk to their own health and well-being and also have a sense of what they can actually do themselves to prevent trouble. We have created a production style that uses first-person testimony and relies on productions in local languages and the voices of local people; and 3) dissemination – how the films are shown. In the case of INCEF, films are taken into the field by teams of two trained educators who measure impact by quantity of viewers, quality of responses before and after each film, and through anecdotal reactions. This methodology has shown positive results in challenges throughout Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo on issues ranging from conservation and to basic health issues, to the complexities of understanding how zoonotic diseases are spread and the repercussions of shifting climates. About the Speaker Cynthia Moses, founder of Moses Films Ltd., has been making award-winning wildlife and conservation films for nearly two decades. Her work has aired on National Geographic, PBS, the Discovery Channel, NBC, as well as internationally. Almost a decade after it was produced, New Chimpanzees (1995) is still considered the definitive film on chimpanzee cultural traditions. Odzala: Islands in the Forest (1999) was essential in convincing the government of the Republic of Congo to expand that park to four times its original size. Living with Gorillas (2000) was the first film to document the behavior of Western Lowland Gorillas. She was part of the team that produced the Emmy nominated Discover Magazine (1995-1999) science series. Her two-hour special Gorillas: Primal Contact (2003) is the first film to cover all three recognized subspecies of gorillas. Her work in Africa and around the world has motivated her to become more involved in conservation serving as a consultant for the Bushmeat Crisis Task Force, producing several short films for The Wildlife Conservation Society on conservation issues in central Africa, and more recently as founder of the International Conservation and Education Fund whose mission is to integrate conservation and health issues through grassroots outreach education.

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Fwd: [TIER] code for the Americas [psa]
by Yaw Anokwa 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eric A. BREWER <brewer(a)cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:52 AM Subject: [TIER] code for the Americas [psa] To: tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu We are holding a multi-city computing contest and I was hoping that you could help us spread the word. Our contest aims to leverage technology to help improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable and poorest groups in the Americas. It would be great if members of TIER and the larger Berkeley community participated. The event will take place this November 2-3 in a dozen countries and over 20 locations, including Harvard and Stanford universities. It is focused on immigration to the US and migration in Latin America. The goal is twofold: -contribute to immigration policy making by analyzing public data -visualize and map data, build apps, websites and other tools for migrants, nonprofits that work with them, and researchers who study human flows in the Americas. The event is an opportunity for students to showcase their skills and contribute to an important cause. It is also a way to meet and connect with like-minded people. The contest is fun, too: It offers a chance to compete with others, from Silicon Valley to Brazil, from Washington D.C. to Canada and Spain. Participants can follow our list of challenges:http://www.americas.datafest.net/challenges, or of course work on their own ideas. Projects will focus on issues that are local, national, or regional. Students can join contest by: Attending in-person a local event Participating online by following simple instructions: http://www.americas.datafest.net/about/how-to-participate-virtually. (For example, we have teams in Georgia and Texas who are interested in joining by video the local event in Alabama). Forming their own local event. Our website has the details: http://www.americas.datafest.net and I will be happy to provide any additional information. Thank you very much for your consideration. Best, Teresa Bouza ------------------------------------- Teresa Bouza Deputy Bureau Chief, EFE, Washington DC www.efe.com 2012 Knight Fellow at Stanford University phone: 917-257-5835 twitter: @terebouza skype: teresa.bouza blog: http://www.computationalreporting.com/ _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier

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Fwd: [TIER] Project "Celerate" (Rural Broadband) announcement
by Matt Podolsky 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yahel Ben-David <yahel(a)berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:58 AM Subject: [TIER] Project "Celerate" announcement To: TIER <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> Shameless self-promotion: http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/10/22/google-grants-2m-to-researchers… Here's the fresh press release: http://denovogroup.org/main/celerate-announcement/ _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier

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Ghana Information Management position opportunity
by Sherrilynne Fuller 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

May be of interest. Sherrilynne Fuller, Ph.D. Professor Department of Biomedical Informatics School of Medicine and Department of Health Services (Adj) School of Public Health and Information School University of Washington SLU – BIME BOX 35-8047 Seattle, Washington, 98195-4985 206-616-4575 206-221-2671 (FAX) 360-440-7341 (Cell) sfuller(a)uw.edu SKYPE: sherrilynne_fuller -----Original Message----- From: wahifp-members-bounces(a)wahifp.org [mailto:wahifp-members-bounces@wahifp.org] On Behalf Of Dorothy K. Gordon Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 6:57 PM Cc: wahifp-members(a)wahifp.org Subject: [Wahifp-members] Job availability Anglican University College of Technology, a new higher education institution located at Nkoranza in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana, requires the services of someone with expertise in Information Management, and enough experience to be appointed Senior Lectureship or above, to be the Programme Coordinator in charge of a B.Sc. Degree programme in Health Information Management, at the University College's School of Food & Health Sciences. Interested applicants should submit CVs and scanned copies of Certificates to the institution's Management via adm(a)angutech.edu.gh Dorothy K. Gordon Director-General Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT Mobile: 233 265005712 Direct Line: 233 302 683579 Website: www.aiti-kace.com.gh Encrypt Everything - https://gpgtools.org https://silentcircle.com

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Change Tuesday Oct 22th: Kurtis Heimerl - GSM White Space
by Trevor Perrier 18 Oct '13

18 Oct '13

What: Kurtis Heimerl: GSM White Space: Spectrum Regulation in Support of Community Cellular Networks When: Tuesday, October 22th at 12 noon Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203 Join us for this weeks Change talk by Kurtis Heimerl on his continued work with community cellular networks and the future small micotelcos. *Abstract* Community Cellular Networks, small scale community-operated microtelcos, have the potential to bring cellular coverage to the remaining 700 million people in rural areas without it. The deployments of two real world networks, our Papua network and Rhizomatica's Oaxaca network, support this vision. However, hurdles remain. One primary limitation is regulatory; the Papua network is running without a spectrum license and the Oaxaca network is limited to a 2-year experimental non-profit license. Instead, major nation-scale carriers own this spectrum and are reluctant to share it. In this work, we propose a mechanism, GSM White Space (GSMWS), for allowing secondary community cellular networks to operate in licensed bands with no negative impact to existing carriers. GSMWS uses cognitive radio designs to co-operate in the same bands as existing carriers. I will detail our early progress on these designs and future work. *About the Speaker* Kurtis Heimerl is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley working under Eric Brewer in EECS and Tapan Parikh in the iSchool. His work focuses primarily on cellular systems and their intersection with international development. He is interested in Education, having worked on the Metamouse group learning program, Crowdsourcing, winning Best Paper at CHI for work on Kiosk-based crowdsoucing systems, and cellular systems for rural areas, winning the Community award at NSDI. He will be graduating in the winter and is very excited about the future of rural connectivity.

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Fw: Fwd: Artoo is Hiring: Rainmaker & Geeks
by Anupam Jain5 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

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Katy Pearce: The reproduction and amplification of gender inequality online - The case of Azerbaijan.
by Trevor Perrier 10 Oct '13

10 Oct '13

What: Katy Pearce: The reproduction and amplification of gender inequality online - The case of Azerbaijan. When: Tuesday, October 15th at 12 noon Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203 Join us for this weeks Change talk by Katy Pearce,<http://www.com.washington.edu/pearce/>assistant professor in the Department of Communication on online gender inequality in Azerbaijan. *Abstract* Inequalities found offline are replicated and are often amplified online. Results from a nationally representative survey in Azerbaijan, an authoritarian post-Soviet petrostate with a tradition of gender inequality, demonstrates that being female is not only a barrier to Internet use, but the strongest barrier to Internet use, frequency, and capital-enhancing online activities. While this study cannot explain why being female has such an effect on access, use, and Internet activities, acknowledging the relative importance of can provide insight into potential targets or entry points for an intervention. *About the Speaker* Katy E. Pearce is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington and holds an affiliation with the Ellison Center for Russian East European, and Central Asian Studies. She specializes in technology and media use in the Former Soviet Union. Her research focuses on social and political uses of technologies and digital content in the transitioning democracies and semi-authoritarian states of the South Caucasus and Central Asia, but primarily Armenia and Azerbaijan. She has a BA (2001) in Armenian, Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Islamic Studies as well as American Culture from the University of Michigan, an MA (2006) in International Studies from the University of London School for Oriental and African Studies, and a PhD (2011) in Communication from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was a Fulbright scholar (Armenia 2007-2008). The main thrust of my research is adoption and use of information and communication technologies in diverse cultural, economic, and political contexts, mainly authoritarian post-Soviet states. The adoption side, I look at barriers to use – often socioeconomic, but sometimes political or cultural. On the outcome of ICT use side, I study outcomes like decreasing or increasing inequality due to ICTs, cosmopolitanism, capital enhancement, civic engagement, demand for democracy, and social activism.

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Fwd: Service Learning Opportunity at the International Rescue Committee
by Alan Borning 10 Oct '13

10 Oct '13

Hi all - I also sent this to the dub-faculty, with the idea that this could be a great capstone project in the iSchool or HCDE (doesn't quite seem CSE-ish) .... but if any of you have other ideas please send me or Amanda a note. thanks, Alan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amanda Addington <Amanda.addington(a)rescue.org> Date: Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:49 PM Subject: Service Learning Opportunity at the International Rescue Committee To: "borning(a)cs.Washington.edu" <borning(a)cs.washington.edu> Dear Professor Borning,**** ** ** My name is Amanda Addington; I am an AmeriCorps VISTA Leader at the International Rescue Committee(IRC) in Seattle. The IRC responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. In Seattle, the IRC provides the services and support needed to assist refugees, asylees and victims of human trafficking to rebuild their lives and become independent and involved members of the community.*** * Each month the IRC hosts the King County Refugee Forum. The Refugee Forum is a membership organization providing information and networking opportunities for those serving refugees in King County. Members and meeting attendees include representatives of resettlement agencies, ethnic community organizations, community based organizations, school districts, healthcare providers, government agencies and individuals working with refugees.**** We would like to develop a website which will be a space for forum members and meeting attendees to share and exchange service-related information. Although we have content information and a general look in mind, we lack the technical skills required to build the site. We have discussed the possibility of developing a service learning opportunity that would allow a student to gain practical experience while assisting us with the limited resources we have available.**** We are looking for University faculty willing to assist in recommending and overseeing a student who is interested in applying their exceptional skills in a practical environment.**** If you are interested in learning more information, please contact me at Amanda.Addington(a)rescue.org or by phone at 607-623-2105.**** ** ** Thank you,**** Amanda Addington**** ** ** ** ** *Amanda Addington | AmeriCorps*VISTA Leader *International Rescue Committee - Refugee Support Network 100 South King Street, Suite 570, Seattle, WA 98104-2885 **** Amanda.Addington(a)rescue.org <Yvette.Sumner(a)rescue.org> | T +1 206 623 2105 * *** refugeesupportnetwork.wordpress.com [image: IRC_1] <http://www.rescue.org/us-program/us-seattle-wa>[image: fb_1]<http://www.facebook.com/IRCSeattle> **** ** **

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